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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
What mechanisms do we have, in 2016, to properly socialize young men? Especially when growing numbers of young men have no stable father in their lives? The collapse of marriage as an institution among the poor - and increasingly the middle-class - has been a social (and economic) catastrophe.
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The teleology (I am doubling down on fancy words) of Western liberalism is atomization and individualization. This is all well and good if you have the luck or the will to exist within or create a social environment that allows your individual skills to thrive.
I've mentioned Charles Murray's Coming Apart as a good first step into understanding why certain communities are thriving, and others are rapidly failing. Incidentally, more successful communities are strongly Christian or at least attend a church regularly.
Islam, with its mythos of dominance, war, and eschatological finality, enters into the personal void like nothing else.